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Black Hills Bentonite

bd_e111a0fd913762b1 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Aug 10, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Black Hills Bentonite2 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Wallstreet on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: ManufacturingDiscovered: 2026-08-10

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Black Hills Bentonite LLC (bhbentonite.com) is a Wyoming-based producer of high-quality sodium bentonite, along with lignite-related products, supplying global industrial and commercial uses such as drilling fluids, environmental/civil engineering sealing, absorbents (including cat litter), and metal casting/foundry applications

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 10, 2026

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this group

wallstreet

7 victims claimed globally7 tracked hereFull profile →